david@ukma.uky.csnet (David Herron, NPR Lover) (11/04/86)
I got a little problem.. I wanna shift our bitnet link over to one of our dmf's (its currently running off a dup-11... can you say slooow?). I got the DMF driver from U of Geulph through Penn State. We have a 750 running 4.3+NFS (From Mt. Xinu) that is our bitnet machine. I've put the driver into the kernel, and the async part just works. BUT when I go to use the sync part the program hangs in the sleep() in the read() routine. (i.e. the open works, but the sleep doesn't). At that point in the read routine we've informed the device that we want recieve characters to a particular place and we want so many of them before making the interrupt. Then the routine goes to sleep and never wakes up. We're using a straight ribbon cable to connect the modem up, and have checked the modem far enough to know we don't need to have RD and TD reversed and that the other lines match up correctly. There was somebody I was emailing with a couple of months ago who said he'd put this driver up under 4.3 and had NO problems. Unfortunately I've lost his address and have no idea who/where he is/was. If you think you're you please speak up. :-) Anybody else that knows anything please speak up. :-) Thank you, -- David Herron, cbosgd!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET, david@ms.uky.csnet (I'm also "postmaster" at all those addresses) (And "news" and "netnews" and "uucp" and ....) (And also ACM chapter chairperson.)